Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Go Back and Knock on a Door

Well the work goes on.

We had a neat spiritual experience this week that I would
like to share.

We were walking in the street going from one appointment
to another when my companion feels like he should go back and knock on a door
that we had recently passed. I thought nothing of it because it is a very
common occurrence to feel the need to go back to the house that you just passed
to see what can turn up there. As we knocked on the door we had a man in his
late 40s answer and invite us in without us ever asking if we could share a
message. Of course we quickly accepted his invitation to enter house and we
began to talk to him. His name is Jose.
He has been a evangelist ever since he married his wife. As we began to
talk to him we were slowly coming to the conclusion that he just wants to argue
about religion, but his arguments were not very well thought out. After showing him some scriptures about the
points there we were making his attitude changed a lot. He began to ask more
questions about things that he didn’t understand and that he was unable to
explain. We gradually began to win over his confidence. Now the house that we
were teaching this man in was not very big and the rooms that he had were just
pieces of ply wood that were connected with curtains. What I am saying is
that from any spot in the house our conversation could be over heard. Well
without us knowing, the wife of this man was washing her dishes in the other
room listening to our conversation. As we were reaching a climatic point of
sharing the reason why there are many churches in this day and age she entered
the room. From what the Brother evangelist was telling us… she is the reason
why he has chosen to follow the religion he currently involved in. I have
discussed the gospel with many evangelists and to be honest they become very
frustrated and upset when we start to talk about prophets and the church that
Christ established. Just like the man reacted in the beginning… I expected
worse from his wife. Luckily, I was really wrong, as we began to talk with them
both the wife told us that she had been listening to the conversation, and that
something in her had said that we were teaching the word of God. She then
BLASTED us with questions… she began to ask about how someone gets the
authority of God to baptize, why is it that Sunday is the Sabbath day, how do
we know if someone is a prophet, what is it that we can do to be saved in the
last days… and many, many more
questions. I felt like a ton had lifted… like Nephi in this moment when he said
¨for when a man speaketh by the power of the Holy Ghost, the power of the Holy
Ghost carrieth it unto the hearts of the children of men.¨” 2nd Nephi 33:1
After we had responded to many of her questions she said something that made me
feel real good. She said that when she was listening to us through the
curtains, that she ¨felt¨ more than she heard, that what we were teaching was
the word of God, and that as we spoke to her she felt more and more peace.
My companion and I were quick to explain that what she was feeling was
the power of the Holy Ghost given to those that have been called by a modern
prophet. As we explained more, her husband came to be accepting more and more
of what we were teaching, and talking to us about the errors that they have
found. What a great lesson we had, seriously.

Well I am excited to talk to them more, because well, they
are super great! We have a lesson with them today so I hope that everything
goes really well.